Mar 01
Ugh, I’m sick and tired of using my hands to control my laptop. I mean, I never really leave my computer–how am I supposed to find time to eat a sandwich? Swedish tech firm Tobii claims to have unlocked this age old sandwich/computing conundrum by harnessing the power of the human eye. The user’s eyes become the mouse, pointing, selecting, and scrolling based on ocular movement. The interface can also be used to zoom in on images or maps and brighten or dim screen brightness.
Tobii has teamed up with Lenovo to offer up some laptop prototypes based around the technology–20 of which will be on display at CeBIT in Germany this week. Here’s what Tobii’s CEO Henik Eskilsson has to say about the partnership,
More than anything else, the Tobii laptop prototype is proof that our eye tracking technology is mature enough to be used in standard computer interfaces. To reach a state where the technology is part of the average computer, we need to make it smaller and cheaper. We believe that this can be realized in a couple of years by partnering with the right manufacturer
No word on when we might actually see a real world eyePa. Cheesy video the technology in action after the jump.
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